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Take 14 pounds of loaf-sugar.

1 gallon of water.

Boil together for five minutes, and add water to make up to 2 gallons.

 

Take 5 gallons of gum syrup.

4 ounces of tartaric acid.

1 ounce of oil of lemon.

1 pint of alcohol.

Cut the oil of lemon in the alcohol, add the tartaric acid, and mix thoroughly with the syrup.

 

Take 1 ounce of oil of lemon.

1 quart of alcohol (95 per cent.).

½ pint of water.

1½ ounces of citric acid.

Grind the citric acid to a powder in a porcelain mortar; dissolve it in the water. Then cut the oil of lemon in the alcohol, and add the acid water.

 


 * Take 1 ounce of oil of cognac.
 * ½ gallon of spirits (95 per cent.).
 * 1 gallon of spirits (70 per cent.).
 * 2 ounces of strong ammonia.

